Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, with quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond (plaquettes; quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, with quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond (plaquettes; quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, with quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond (plaquettes; quatre-feuilles) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

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Unknown location

S/n

Metal (hinges);ivory

Height: 96 mm
Width: 68.5 mm

Wing, left
Assumption; Virgin in a mandorla borne to Heaven by angels (bodily Assumption); Virgin holding a martyr's palm and a book; musician angels (rebec, organ, flute; bagpipes; drums).
Wing, right
Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; blessing gesture; four angels holding navettes and swinging censers in the spandrels.
In a quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond. Pointed trefoils.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Charles Piet-Lataudrie (d. 1909), Paris.

Image

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